736 pages ; 21 cm

Selections from his autobiography, popular essays, works on philosophy, psychology, history, mathematics, and international relations

Preface by Bertrand Russell -- Introduction by the editors -- Epigrammatic insights from the penn of Russell -- Chronological list of Russell -- Chronological list of Russell's principal works -- Chronology of the life of Bertrand Russell -- Acknowledgements -- Some thoughts about Bertrand Russell -- pt. I. Autobiographical asides. 1, My religious reminiscences. 2, My mental development. 3, Adaptation: an autobiographical epitome. 4, Why I took to philosophy -- pt. II. The Nobel Prize winning man of letters (essayist and short story writer). 5, How I write. 6, A free man's worship. 7, An outline of intellectual rubbish: a hilarious catalogue of organized and individual stupidity. 8, The metaphysician's nightmare -- pt. III. The philosopher of language. 9, Language. 10, Sentences, syntax, and parts of speech. 11, The uses of language. 12, The cult of "common usage" -- pt. IV. The logician and philosopher of mathematics. 13, Symbolic logic. 14, On induction. 15, Preface to Principia mathematica. 16, Introduction to Principia mathematica. 17, summary of part III, Principia mathematica. 18, Summary of part IV, Principia mathematica. 19, Summary of part V, Principia mathematica. 20, Summary of part VI, Principia mathematica. 21, Introduction to the second edition, Principia mathematica. 22, Mathematics and logic. 23, The validity of inference. 24, Dewey's new Logic. 25, John Dewey -- pt. V. The epistemologist. 26, Knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description. 27, Theory of knowledge. 28, Epistemological premisses -- pt. VI. The metaphysician. 29, Materialism, past and present. 30, Language and metaphysics. 31, The retreat from Pythagoras -- pt. VII. Historian of philosophy. 32, Philosophy in the twentieth century. 33, Aristotle's logic. 34, St. Thomas Aquinas. 35, Currents of thought in the nineteenth century. 36, The philosophy of logical analysis -- pt. VIII. The psychologist. 37, Psychological and physical causal laws. 38, Truth and falsehood. 39, Knowledge behaviouristically considered -- pt. IX. The moral philosopher. 40, Styles in ethics. 41, The place of sex among human values. 42, Individual and social ethics. 43, "What I believe." 44, The expanding mental universe -- pt. X. The philosopher of education. 45, Education. 46, The aims of education. 47, Emotion and discipline. 48, The functions of a teacher -- pt. XI. The philosopher of politics. 49, The reconciliation of individuality and citizenship. 50, Philosophy and politics. 51, Politically important desires. 52, Why I am not a Communist -- pt. XII. The philosopher in the field of economics. 53, Property. 54, Dialectical materialism. 55, The theory of surplus value -- pt. XIII. The philosopher of history. 56, On history. 57, The materialistic theory of history. 58, History as an art -- pt. XIV. The philosopher of culture: East and West. 59, Chinese and Western civilization contrasted. 60, Eastern and Western ideals of happiness -- pt. XV. The philosopher of religion. 61, The essence of religion. 62, What is an agnostic? 63, Why I am not a Christian. 64, Can religion cure our troubles? -- pt. XVI. The philosopher and expositor of science. 65, Physics and neutral monism. 66, Science and education. 67, Limitations of scientific method. 68, The new physics and relativity. 69, Science and values. 70, Non-demonstrative inference -- pt. XVII. The analyst of international affairs. 71, The taming of power. 72, If we are to survive this dark time-. 73, What would help mankind most? 74, Current perplexities. 75, World government. 76, The next half-century. 77, Life without fear. 78, Science and human life. 79, Open letter to Eisenhower and Khrushchev. 80, Man's peril. 81, Methods of settling disputes in the Nuclear Age

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